A fire aboard a cargo vessel under repair at a Qingdao shipyard killed 20 people, with five missing in Thursday's named files. [1] Reuters filed major casualties through state media. [1] The New York Times filed the same blaze. [2] Print 20 and five missing. Do not spend a later settled 25 that belongs to a later edition.

A yard fire is not a closed port and not a Hormuz sentence. Cause remains under investigation. Xi Jinping ordering a probe is a political sentence, not a finding. Print the fire. Print unconfirmed as a cause.

Print 20. Print five missing. Leave a named final toll to the edition that owns a named final toll.
Thursday is not a vanished Qingdao.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing